Screen for windows, doors, or the like.



PATENTED APR, 21, 1903..

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UNITED STATE PATENT OFFICE.

FRANK O. WRIGHT, OF GAVESPRING, GEORGIA.

SCREEN FOR WINDOWS, DOORS, OR THE LIKE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 726,210, dated April21, 1903-.

. Application filed August 8, 1902. enial No.'1.l8,9'. 1. (No model.)

To aZZ whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, FRANK O. WRIGHT, a

citizen of the United States, residing at Oaveand yet prevent theirentrance from the ex-' terior to the interior. Many different structureshave been devised for this purpose and usually embodied complicatedarrangements of parts or material changes in the general screenorganizations and a corresponding increase in the cost of manufacture.

The present invention has been devised especially to obviate expensivevariations in the ordinary screen organization and at the same timeprovides a simple outlet or escape means and comprises, essentially, atop bar forming a part of the screen-frame with a bevel on one side andan adjacent cross supporting-strip secured to the side bars of thescreen-frame and over which the screen material is folded or doubled,the cross supporting-strip having 0 enings therein at intervals for theinsertion t erethrough of round wire nails, which are also passedlongitudinally through metallic sleeves interposed between the crosssupporting-strip and the top strip of the screen-frame, whereby a seriesof escape-openings are produced. I

In the drawings, Figure 1 is a perspective view of the upper portion ofa screen embodying the features of the invention. Fig. 2 is a transversevertical section through the upper portion of the screen, as shown byFig. 1. Fig. 3 shows detail perspective views of one of the round wiresecuring-nails and one of the sleeves. Fig. 4 is a detail perspectiveview of the cross supporting-strip on which the upper extremity of thescreen material is secured.

- Similar numerals of reference are employed to indicate correspondingparts in the several views.

The numeral 1 designates the top bar of a screen-frame, which has thelower portion of one side cut away in a beveled plane, as at 2. The bar1 is secured to the upper ends of side bars 3, and attached at itsopposite extremities to the said side bars is a metallicsupporting-strip 4, having openings 5 formed therein at regular.intervals between the secured extremities. The screen material 6, of theusual form, is doubled around the cross supporting-stripe and secured byround Wire nails 7, inserted through the openings 5 and also throughmetallic sleeves 8, which have their ends respectivelybearing againstthe stripe]. and the lower portion of the bevel 2 of the top bar 1, thenails 7 passing into the said bar. It Will be observedthat the sleeves 8prevent the strip 1 from being pushed toward the bar 1 and also define aseries of escape-openings, as clearly shown by Fig. 1. To accommodatethe inclination of the bevel 2, the one end 9 of each sleeve 8 iscorrespondingly beveled, as clearly indicated in Fig. 2. The screenmaterial 6 is also secured, as in the usual screen structures, by strips10.

From the foregoing it will be seen that means are provided for theescape of flies from the interior 'of an apartment to the exterior ofthe same without materially modifying the general screen organization,and, as Well known by those skilled in the art, flies and insects willrarely or never enter an apartment through such escape-openings,particularly if an apartment is darkened. Flies and other insects willinstinctively pass out through the escape-openings heretofore described;but in crawling up on the outer surface of the screen they will pass onup the inclined outer surface of the top bar instead of down through.the escape-openings, and thus the utility and advantage of theinvention will be obvious.

The simple device employed to form the escape-openings will notmaterially increase the-cost of manufacture of screens with a furtheradvantage.

Having thus fully described the invention, what is claimed as .new is Ascreen comprising a top bar having the lower portion of one side beveledto form an opening, side bars connected to said top bar,

a cross supporting-strip having the extremities thereof secured to theside bars adjacent In testimony whereof I affix my signature to thebeveled portion of the top bar, screen in presence of two Witnesses.

material passed around the said supporting- 1 Y bar, sleeves interposedbetween the support- FRANK WRIGHI' ins-strip and the lower portion ofthe top Witnesses:

bar, and nails driven through the supporting- PAUL OULBERTSON,

strip and sleeves and into the top bar. PERCY CULBERTSON.

